Inside Outside: The Indian Design Magazine

Our cover story this time talks about a lavish residence integrating modern elements and design into the ancient principles of Vastu Shastra. Here, the design team of Bangalore-based design studio Sathish’s Swanlines kept to a rectangular structure for the residence and designed an interesting structure with an expansive toughened glass panel on the eastern façade, projecting balconies, large glass panels set in frames and a projecting pergola. The penthouse in Nashik by Studio Frozen Music uses a minimal material and colour palette, to maintain continuity between the spaces. The Vastu-compliant home addresses functionality in its design, with simplicity as its hallmark. This home is simultaneously warm because of the wood tones, and serene due to the extensive use of white. Greenery brings in nature in small doses, softening the ambience. 

Architects Faisal Vohra and Shamila Meeran, founders of F+S Designs, Hyderabad, transform a dim, non-descript garage into the bright and buzzing D’Hide Café at Koramangala, Bangalore. The project won them the IIID Young Practice of the Year for 2015 for South India. In the ethos of European patisseries the architects designed a curved glass pastry display unit and a pendant unit of open shelves. For serving and styling: elements such as cookie jars, tea pots, old milk measuring containers, wall plates with images of the English countryside, prints of European towns and countryside, and European-style wall and pendant ceiling lamps. 

Employing a flamboyant Moroccan aesthetic, a spa-cum-salon in Surat by Studio Perceptus moves away from the expected vanilla flavour, to create a luxurious ambience for clients to immerse themselves in. An intense exercise in bringing together pattern, colour and texture within a fully Vastu-compliant framework.